Biological weapons and the U.S. civil war

Over the weekend I was thinking about something interesting that I had heard about this disease http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderpest. It has never been seen in the Americas. So my question is what would have happened if one side or the other during the civil war introduced it to the Americas in an attempt to eliminate their food base?

Also at the same time this is attempted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glanders
Biological warfare use[edit]

Due to the high mortality rate in humans and the small number of organisms required to establish infection, Burkholderia mallei is regarded as a potential biological warfare (BW) or bioterrorism agent, as is the closely related organism, Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis. During World War I, Glanders was believed to have been spread deliberately by German agents to infect large numbers of Russian horses and mules on the Eastern Front.[3] Other agents attempted to introduce the disease in the United States and Argentina. This had an effect on troop and supply convoys as well as on artillery movement, which were dependent on horses and mules. Human cases in Russia increased with the infections during and after WWI. The Japanese deliberately infected horses, civilians, and prisoners of war with B. mallei at the Pinfang (China) Institute during World War II.
The U.S. studied this agent as a possible BW weapon in 1943–44 but did not weaponize it. U.S. interest in Glanders (Agent LA) continued through the 1950s, except it had an inexplicable tendency to lose virulence in the lab, making it difficult to weaponize. The Soviet Union is also believed to have been interested in B. mallei as a potential BW agent after World War II.
 
Using Biological weapons would be unspeakably heinous also hard to control and likely to back fire.

The Union wouldn't be desperate enough and the CSA... well it wont just be Georgia howling this time around.
 
They'd infect their own food base, that's what would happen. A civil war seems like a bad time to use biological weapons.
 
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